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The coming into being of the notion of “author” constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy, and the sciences…
Join us in exploring Foucault’s exploration of the author and the complex relationship between author, text, and reader. Death, free expression, individualism, and culture combine.
The inaugural of Philosophy Genius’s Philosophy Phridays, we explore what Stephen Colbert would surely find his favorite philosophical concept: tautologies! In Ludwig Wittgentsein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he lays down truthiness almost a whole century before the faux pundit.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of his most influential passages, having inspired a wide range of later thinkers, from Renaissance poets (neo-Platonists like Sir Philip Sidney) to Hollywood blockbusters (The Matrix).
Put simply, if you were chained up in a cave your whole life and could only see shadows on a wall, how would you know they weren’t everything in existence?
